I will write on the tablets the same words ¹  that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ ¹  and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ¹  to kill our ²  people!”

You are to put into the ark the testimony ¹  that I will give to you.

“With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,

the ark, with its poles, the atonement lid, and the special curtain that conceals it;

and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.

he ¹  commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws ¹  to come up from the Jordan.”

Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

When the ark of the Lord had been in the land ¹  of the Philistines for seven months, ² 

When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark.

Its heart ¹  is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung ¹  the protecting curtain, ²  and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So I made an ark of acacia ¹  wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Then the people ¹  of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord; they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.

The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, ¹  he ²  killed him on the spot ³  for his negligence. ⁴  He died right there beside the ark of God.